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ME/CFS Severe → relapsedIll for 3.5 yearsBenefit faded or relapsed

Aggressive Rest Therapy: My Experience

Condition
ME/CFS
At worst
Severe (mostly bedbound)
Ill for
3.5 years
Published
Sep 2016

Summary

Cheesus started Aggressive Rest Therapy about a year into a mild-to-moderate case and saw rapid improvement over roughly five months, then overdid it and drove himself into a horrendous two-year crash. By this post he was severe again and using low-dose naltrexone to recover, still calling Aggressive Rest Therapy the only thing he has ever felt was really healing despite the relapse.

Read it in their words

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What they credit

Credits Low-dose naltrexone, Pacing, Low-dose naltrexone, Pacing and the energy envelope.

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